Efficient Routing of Mobile Agents in a Stochastic Network



Título del documento: Efficient Routing of Mobile Agents in a Stochastic Network
Revista: Polibits
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000373741
ISSN: 1870-9044
Autores: 1
2
3
Instituciones: 1Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Tel Aviv. Israel
2Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon. Israel
3Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong. China
Año:
Periodo: Jul-Dic
Número: 46
Paginación: 61-66
País: México
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental, aplicado
Resumen en inglés Mobile agents are autonomous programs that may be dispatched through computer networks. Using a mobile agent is a potentially efficient method to perform transactions and retrieve information in networks. Unknown congestion in a network causes uncertainty in the routing times of mobile agents so the routing of mobile agents cannot rely solely on the average travel time. In this paper we deal with a given stochastic network in which the mobile agent routing time is a random variable. Given pre-specified values R and PR, the objective is to find the path with the minimum expected time under the constraint that the probability that the path time is less than R is at least PR. We show that this problem is NP-hard, and construct an exact pseudo-polynomial algorithm and an ε-approximation algorithm (FPTAS) for the problem
Disciplinas: Ciencias de la computación
Palabras clave: Redes,
Ruteo estocástico,
Algoritmos,
Arquitectura de redes,
Agentes móviles
Keyword: Computer science,
Networks,
Stochastic routing,
Algorithms,
Network architecture,
Mobile agents
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